Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas

Prologue

There’s a running joke about hospitals here: “Where do you go for great health care in Las Vegas?”

“The airport.”

The implication is everyone knows hospital care in Southern Nevada is substandard.

The reality, however is that only a small circle of hospital officials, insurance executives, regulators and politicians have had access to meaningful information about the quality of hospitals in Las Vegas.
Until now.